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Sapphire PURE Fusion Mini
Bought this one two weeks ago, it works well with OpenSuSE 11.4 and the current AMD E350 64 bit Linux driver. The only issue I found was I had to manually set the over/under scan to get full screen 1920/1200. Video playback tears a little bit but that's par for the course with AMD & Linux in my experience.
With Win7/64 this Sapphire locks up loading the disk.sys (or is it disk.drv?) driver, LOL.
I'd tried an ASUS micro-ATX E350 board previously with OpenSUSE 11.3 - nothing but trouble and I returned it for refund. But the ASUS worked flawlessly with Win7/64 however.
I care a lot more about Linux working, so I'm keeping this Sapphire.
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Originally posted by Nesousx View PostHi all,
I just bought this card in the hope of running a NAS + htpc config but so far I have had no luck. I have spent about 30 hours in the last 2 days with no success...
I tried Sabayon distribution which gave me the best results: everything working out of the box, but once I updated the system it was no longer working...
I am now running debian 6 because this is my every day's OS and feel at ease with it, however I am not a Linux power user.
[*]Right now, I am using fglrx drivers 11.3 from ATI website, my desktop is in working in full HD with direct rendering activated. I have black borders, but used the "ugly fix" on my TV settings in order to remove those bars.
[*]I don't have any sound, and in alsamixer in only shows the SPDIF "sound card". I wish I could use the sound over HDMI.
[*]In XBMC, VAAPI is enabled in the settings but isn't working during playback: huge CPU load and stuff. I compiled and installed splitted desktop version of gstreamer, didn't help.
I am totally clueless and willing to give all the command line outputs you want or need to help me.
Thanks a lot in advance.
To long to read:- there is no sound over hdmi yet
- to fix VAAPI in Debian 6 simply use the command
Code:
ln -s /usr/lib/va/drivers/* /usr/lib/dri/
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Nope that does not help for Debian 6.0 aka squeeze. I wrote a test script that did not create symlinks but changed the package to match the new xvba-va-driver package (but would work with any xvba-video update package too). The libva 1.0.1 in squeeze seems to be too old. No correct vainfo output at least.
Instead of installing xvba-video manually you can just install in in Debian testing/sid:
apt-get install xvba-va-driver
Ubuntu natty has 0.7.7 instead of 0.7.8, maybe file a bug. You can fetch of course the debian package for it:
Best get of the old xvba-video package if you installed it already:
dpkg --purge xvba-video
it does nothing anyway when you don't use libva from
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which uses a completely different packageing. It is really sad that those packages are not compatible. Also why does it need to be in non-free? It would be more logical when it would be in the normal repository just like vdpau-va-driver as the xvba sdk is available - so source could be released too...
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Originally posted by Kano View PostNope that does not help for Debian 6.0 aka squeeze. I wrote a test script that did not create symlinks but changed the package to match the new xvba-va-driver package (but would work with any xvba-video update package too). The libva 1.0.1 in squeeze seems to be too old. No correct vainfo output at least.
Instead of installing xvba-video manually you can just install in in Debian testing/sid:
apt-get install xvba-va-driver
Ubuntu natty has 0.7.7 instead of 0.7.8, maybe file a bug. You can fetch of course the debian package for it:
Best get of the old xvba-video package if you installed it already:
dpkg --purge xvba-video
it does nothing anyway when you don't use libva from
splitted-desktop.com is your first and best source for all of the information you’re looking for. From general topics to more of what you would expect to find here, splitted-desktop.com has it all. We hope you find what you are searching for!
which uses a completely different packageing. It is really sad that those packages are not compatible. Also why does it need to be in non-free? It would be more logical when it would be in the normal repository just like vdpau-va-driver as the xvba sdk is available - so source could be released too...
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In order to make testing more easy i updated my mplayer vaapi script. vlc from natty repo did never work nor mplayer with vaapi with natty, but i can use vaapi with Kanotix Hellfire (squeeze based).
Code:wget -qO- http://kanotix.com/files/fix/mplayer-vaapi-latest.txt|sudo sh
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Hi. Does anyone know why they disabled acceleration for Evergreen-GPUs?
A friend of mine has a new notebook (IdeaPad S205) and is very unhappy because there is no acceleration at all. We tried the newest Ubuntu, OpenSuse and even installed the latest xf86-video-ati while running a Gentoo liveDVD. The Xorg.log said that Evergreen GPUs were not yet supported, which I found odd because http://xorg.freedesktop.org said otherwise.
Then I found this:
Stable release of xf86-video-ati for the 6.13.x series.
Main features: server 1.9 support, evergreen accel disabled explicitly,[...]
Using fglrx is not a very good option since we didn't get proper dualhead support.
Thanks.
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Originally posted by neckname View PostHi. Does anyone know why they disabled acceleration for Evergreen-GPUs? A friend of mine has a new notebook (IdeaPad S205) and is very unhappy because there is no acceleration at all. We tried the newest Ubuntu, OpenSuse and even installed the latest xf86-video-ati while running a Gentoo liveDVD. The Xorg.log said that Evergreen GPUs were not yet supported, which I found odd because http://xorg.freedesktop.org said otherwise.
Not sure what you mean about "why they disabled acceleration for Evergreen" unless you're talking about that mailing list post from a year ago when Evergreen support was only partially implemented (and so was turned off to avoid any problems).
Originally posted by neckname View Posthttp://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-dri...ly/016250.html
Could someone explain to me why they disabled the acceleration and tell me what the current status is? Using fglrx is not a very good option since we didn't get proper dualhead support.
Evergreen support has been there for longer but the Fusion parts require slightly different programming.Test signature
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Thans you for your reply.
I just searched the sourcecode and found:
Code:./src/radeon_driver.c if (info->ChipFamily >= CHIP_FAMILY_CEDAR) { xf86DrvMsg(pScrn->scrnIndex, X_INFO, "No DRI yet on Evergreen\n");
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